Famous scientist and inventions

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1. Famous scientists and their inventions Presented by Samrana Gultasab

2. Famous scientists and their inventions Some famous scientists and their most remarkable inventions and discoveries. Invention is something you create by experimentation, where as discovery is finding out that already exists.

3. Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647) The famous Italian physicist and mathematician is the inventor of the barometer (scientific tool used in the field of meteorology to estimate atmospheric pressure), built in 1643. It would be interesting to note that a number of Italian Navy submarines were named after the inventor .

4. Ferdinand Verbiest (1623 - 1688) Verbiest was an astronomer and a mathematician. He was the one to invent the world's first automobile . The inventor came up with the idea to create an automobile while visiting China as a missionary. His automobile was powered by steam, but couldnot carry humans.

5. Charles Babbage (1791-1871) Charles Babbage was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer. Considered as “ Father of Computers ”, Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer that eventually led to more complex designs.

6. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845 - 1923) The famous German physicist Röntgen is the one who discovered the X-rays (also known as Röntgen rays). This invention allowed the German scientist to win the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.

7. Thomas Edison (1847 - 1931) He has made a large number of inventions, but the most wellknown one is the electric bulb . Among other discoveries of Thomas Edison there are telegraph devices, phonograph, carbon transmitter, direct current generator, universal electric motor, and more.

8. Alexander Graham Bell (1857 - 1922) During the experiments he carried out with the telegraph, Bell came up with the idea of the telephone . The inventor of one of the most popular devices today thought that the telephone was intruding, that is why he didnot have one in his workplace.

9. Marie Skłodowska -Curie (1867-1934 ) Marie Skłodowska -Curie was a polish physicist and chemist working mainly in France, who is famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity . She was the inventor of radium . She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields and the only person to win in multiple sciences. She was also the first female professor at university of paris and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in Paris.

10. The Wright Brothers, Orville(1871-1948), Wilbur(1867-1912) The Wright brothers were two American brothers, inventors and aviation pioneers who were credited for inventing and building the world’s first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained, heavier than air human flight on December 1 7, 1903. In the two years afterward, the brothers developed their flying machine into the first practical fixed wing aircraft .